Hello again @TitusTwoWife, while you are welcome to disagree with that or any other portion of the article, of course, I don't believe that it spoke of anything that isn't Biblical (concerning taking an offering to pay for needed expenses, including pastors' salaries).
Here are some Scriptures that direct us concerning this particular practice (in no particular order).
1 Corinthians 9
14 The Lord directed those who proclaim the gospel to get their living from the gospel.
Reading the opening context (1 Corinthians 9:1-14) would be helpful here too, I think.
Matthew 10
9 Do not acquire gold, or silver, or copper for your money belts,
10 or a bag for your journey, or even two coats, or sandals, or a staff; for the worker is worthy of his support.
The above were the Lord Jesus' instructions given to the Twelve. He also instructed the Seventy in a similar manner (see Luke 10:1-7).
1 Timothy 5
17 The elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.
18 For the Scripture says, “YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE HE IS THRESHING,” and “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”
The ministers in the new testament took food and shelter if they traveled and some of the rich women helped pay for expenses but they never charged for the gospel and were not paid a salary.
I believe the "ministers" that you are referring to above were actually missionaries (the 12 & the 70), not the Lord's undershepherds (IOW, the elders/pastors/priests of the visible church) who He continues to commission to carefully watch over the souls of His flock (during the time of His physical absence from among us .. e.g. Hebrews 13:17). Quite frankly (at this point in the 1st Century, that is), the Christian church and congregations full of believers were yet to be formed (following Pentecost).
BTW, churches do not "charge" for their services. Cults have been known to do so, and if you find yourself present at one of their services (a service where people are charged to attend, or ones that ask you to come back the following week with 3 year's worth of tax returns to show them), leave immediately, not walking, but running 
That said, asking congregants (who benefit regularly and directly from the many services that they are privy to in their churches) to make a ~voluntary~ offering (to help support the church financially), in no way constitutes being "charged" to attend church!
Finally, although some still use it as a helpful reference, the "tithe" was for OT Israel, not for the Christian church (e.g. 2 Corinthians 9:6-7).
While it is okay for pastors to make money on their own time, the idea of a tithe system with paid staff to spread the gospel is not biblical.
I direct your attention to the Scriptures (posited earlier in this post) concerning where the livelihood of our pastors is supposed to come from (there are more, of course, and we can discuss all of them if you'd like to). The Apostle Paul "chose" to have a separate income of his own (for a time anyway .. he made tents), but he makes it clear that he did so for a specific reason, and because he wanted to, ~not~ because the Bible required him to.
He also received support from various churches, sometimes to support his ministry work in those churches, and sometimes to support his ministry work in other churches. For instance, as he said to the church in Corinth,
2 Corinthians 11
8 I robbed other churches by taking wages from them to serve you.
Fortunately, this was not always the case in the Corinthian church (as this and many other problems in that church were, PTL, corrected over time).
We should give directly to those in need, not fund pastor's salaries and fancy buildings. The collection was always for saints in need, not paid pastors.
I disagree, and (as you've just seen) so does the Bible. Once the 1st Century congregations were formed, people laid their offerings at the feet of the Apostles and/or the leaders of their churches, to support the various ministries of the church, and to also be distributed where the need was greatest. Part of the collection was given to support the full-time staff, who spent their time at work in prayer and in the ministry of the word to the benefit of the members of their congregations, first and foremost.
The good news is this, churches come is all shapes and sizes, including house churches that do not include formal preaching/teaching by seminary-trained pastors, nor do they have the expenses associated with church buildings. Of course, there are many advantages to the large churches, advantages that require $$, all of which is typically collected from voluntary giving (as a for instance, while our city provides a meal/day for the homeless here, the megachurch down the street from me provides a second meal for them each day of the year too .. a meal that is prepared and served by the congregation of that church, and completely paid for, as well, by the voluntary giving of its members).
The thing is, we need to be in fellowship with one another regularly. The good news is, there are many ways to do that, so just pick the one that suits you best w/o judging the others for doing what they choose to do (unless it violates Scripture, of course). Quite frankly, I hope that these many choices remain, from simple Bible studies, to house churches, to our megachurches, and everything else in between, too.
God bless you!!
--Papa Smurf
p.s. - preaching the Gospel to unbelievers, while ~extraordinarily~ important, is hardly the sum total of the important work that our elders/pastors/priests do for us, whether in the 1st Century or now. For instance,
Ephesians 4
11 He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,
12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;
13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
